11:39 <FromGitter> <paulocoghi> Hello crystalists, ⏎ ⏎ I'm looking to convert images (JPG, PNG) to webp in Crystal, and I would like to ask if someone already ported `libvips` ( https://github.com/libvips/libvips ) to a Crystal binding.

11:41 <FromGitter> <paulocoghi> Of course any library already made or ported to Crystal is more than enough. But I mentioned `libvips` in particular because it uses less memory, it's lightweight and fast.

13:58 <FromGitter> <RespiteSage> @paulocoghi There's this: https://github.com/imdrasil/crymagick

13:58 <FromGitter> <RespiteSage> Hasn't been updated since September, though.

14:11 <FromGitter> <paulocoghi> Thanks, Benjamin!

14:32 <FromGitter> <RespiteSage> No problem! You now have me reading about different image file formats (particularly WebP and AVIF).

16:33 <riza> @paulocoghi I have spent some time looking into this myself and come up with nothing

16:33 <riza> libvips is great, and it's a giant leg up on the graphicksmagick / imagemagick stuff in performance.

16:38 <FromGitter> <paulocoghi> Exactly. On their speed and memory usage, we can see the huge difference. https://github.com/libvips/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use

16:41 <riza> unfortunately they have a lot of room to grow in reputation

16:41 <riza> imagemagick has been around for a long time and is well established in the minds of developers

16:42 <riza> http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ has been around for 20 years and still struggles to take mindshare

18:28 <FromGitter> <moe:busyloop.net> last time i tried imagemagick it would leak memory like a sieve

18:28 <FromGitter> <moe:busyloop.net> +1 on vips

19:11 <FromGitter> <paulocoghi> Despite `vips` being a new library, it seems solid: 80+ contributros, 8+ years of active and continuous development, good documentation, very positive results on all fronts

21:38 <FromGitter> <moe:busyloop.net> 8 years is new? are you a debian maintainer or something? 🤔

22:22 <FromGitter> <stellarpower> THe CLI of imagemagick is just unmanageable to me. I took some time trying to work out how VIPS worked for a very basic task, but once I had it up it just is vastly more explanatory as to what is happening than whatever IM had as equivalent

22:23 <FromGitter> <stellarpower> It is like magic. You just have toi happen to know the exact secret incantation and say it correclty and then it;ll do what you want, otherwise, you're screwed